does anyone else read books on their phone during their break? or does that not display 'i'm reading' enough for lit? i've thought that once. since everyone scrolls their phone, outwardly it's all the same. i kind of like that.i work in a warehouse and do this. lately i've been off fiction though. reading about the history of numbers and mathematics in my 30 minutes, scoffing last night's cooking. i love history because it's intellectually stimulating (open-ended) and an alien world in which i can forget the drudgery of my own. yes, i'm also learning mathematics. i have no formal education.
I've seen people reading walking down the street. Very funny.
>>24682888what did you find funny about it?looking at your phone while walking or talking to someone for that matter should be a minor taboo. disgusting behaviour. not even human at that point, just a machine's puppet.
I read the exact same book I started home. Just because I do a stupid job doesn't mean I must be dumb too.
unrelated postwatching thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yG29a8Ghrsi appreciate the feel-good sensibilities of japanese people. and the misplaced sense that there is honour in wageslavery. it's serene.>>24682920good on ya man
>>24682884I made lots of infographics for people like you kek
>>24682884>15 minute breakslol no
>Work as a welder>Shop switches from 20 minute paid lunches to hour long unpaid lunches>Bullshit but at least it gives me time to read>Coworkers now call me a 'book reading faggot'>Have to listen to at least one hour of insane clown posse music a shift I fuggin hate this industry.
>>24683586>>Have to listen to at least one hour of insane clown posse music a shiftkek
>>24682884I've had a stable, comfy pleb job for many years. Reading during work breaks is a ritual I have maintained the entire time. I can just read in a windowless, musicless airconditioned room. I just read 1-10 pages of the current book, retain the basics, and I keep reading it until I'm done. A partial listing of what I've read entirely during work breaks:Habermas, Theory of Communicative ActionFederalist PapersThe Immortal Game (a breezy history of chess)Agamben, State of Exception (tiny)Society of the SpectacleHouellebecq, WhateverJoyce, DublinersMachiavelli, The Prince (a quick re-read)Joyce, Portrait (a re-read, read the first time many years before)Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid (did these as a unit recently, finished Aeneid at parent's house during a break. Hated the Iliad, but at least now I know who's who)multiple volumes of Cioran (I made a point of keeping these very discreet, so as not to attract any questions)Spinoza, Ethics (silly, unwarranted and arbitrary connections. The god stuff is all nonsense. Feynman was right to smile. The only connections of value are in the second half, the novel "RGB" admixtures of pain, pleasure and desire which are purported to generate all human emotions)The above was part of that whole "Rationalists" reader with Descartes and Leibniz, I think I read most of that at worksome books by Maurizio Lazzarato (a contemptible commie piece of shit, more hate-reading for me)M.C. Escher, his Life and Complete Graphic Work (a re-read)The Book of Kells, Francoise Henry (a re-read)Lots of other stuff I forget.
>>24682884I read books at work, as in I bring the physical book to work with me. My "break" is 3 or 4 hours long so i get a good deal of reading done.
>>24683586Maybe you can figure out how magnets work
>>24683586This is why, no matter how much tradies make, they will always be low on the social ladder.
>>24687077Not really. Since people ultimately only care about wealth, wealth moves the world, what is tasteful follows that and the rest is usually cope, an attempt to fabricate status in light of loss of it with little to prove it since it was obviously founded on wealth to start with. But this isn't about tradies, it's about new money, now not new, now indistinguishable.Good income vs mediocre income for someone not born to wealth is an irrelevant distinction, and the difference in culturedness is also slight or nonexistent on the whole. The tradies with exceptional income are exclusively intelligent, multi-skilled businessmen. The actually wealthy have a separate culture unrelated to the masses and unfortunately I would not call it classy by any means.
